Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Six months ago Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas of Cincinnati, one of the ablest Roman Catholic prelates in the Midwest, took the lead in forming the Legion of Decency to boycott pictures considered immoral or obscene (TIME, June ii). One day last week the benign, grey-haired Archbishop sat in white...
To stop the furious squabbling among Nazi groups bent on founding a 100% Teuton religion. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, himself a Roman Catholic, recently ordered them to unite as Die Deutsche Glaubens Bewegung (The German Faith Movement). Last week the believing pioneers jammed a great Berlin hall, some boldly shouting '...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, still the most potent producing plant in Hollywood, had more than David Copperfield and a Prime Minister to ballyhoo. Prime factors in the past success of Metro pictures have been 1) "star-power"; 2) Irving Thalberg. First two pictures on Producer Irving Thalberg's schedule are The...
Universal, like other Hollywood companies, is suffering a painful shortage of good story material. Cinema producer have bought production rights to almost every successful play produced in Manhattan since last autumn. Next year's schedules are, more than ever, topheavy with oldtime "classics." Not to be outclassed by MGM, Universal...
Into a railroad siding at Richmond Hill, L. I. one day last week rolled a Pullman car on whose sides, in gilt letters, was printed ST. PETER. Presently a small boy clambered aboard. Within he discovered a chapel, an altar complete with tabernacle, candlesticks and altar cloth. Crossing himself he...